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Thursday, April 26, 2012

The Browser daily newsletter [26 Apr 2012]

26 April 2012

 Best of the Moment

Mitt Romney's Dark Knight

Jason Zengerle | GQ | 25 April 2012

Were Romney to beat Obama in November, who would be moving into Karl Rove's old office? Eric Fehrnstrom, he of the Etch a Sketch gaffe. Romney's most trusted adviser. Former tabloid reporter who isn't shy about breaking a few legs Comments

2012 Jefferson Lecture: 'It All Turns On Affection'

Wendell Berry | National Endowment For The Humanities | 24 April 2012

On American industrialisation. In the countryside especially, it has crowded out what was once a "neighborly, kind, and conserving economy", based on affection. Corporations have no emotions—except, perhaps greed. h/t Eric Burnette Comments

Velvet Fist

Emma Williams | Intelligent Life | 25 April 2012

Profile of Srdja Popovic, Serbian peaceful revolutionary. Helped to overthrow Milosevic in 2000. Started NGO that has trained pro-democracy activists in 40 countries. Source of instruction and inspiration for Arab Spring Comments

The Aid Bitchslap

Quinn Zimmerman | Shotgun Shack | 25 April 2012

American aid worker approaches end of two-year stint in Haiti, wonders: What good did I do? All the imported equipment is broken. Society continues as it did before. Nobody says thank you. On the contrary, they hate us Comments

German Mercantilism And The Failure Of The Eurozone

Heiner Flassbeck | Yanis Varoufakis | 21 April 2012

Eurozone was a good economic idea, but badly designed. Should have focused on common inflation target, not harmonised public budgets. Fixing this requires all countries to act, not lopsided belt-tightening around the Mediterranean Comments

Talking With Your Fingers

John McWhorter | NYT | 23 April 2012

In defence of texting and email as height of sophistication. They do not signal the end of formal writing, rather the start of a unique innovation. "They are not 'writing' in the sense we are accustomed to. They are fingered speech" Comments

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